Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi.
Commentary by Petrus de Alliaco and Petrus Sanchez Cirvelus. Add: Petrus Sanchez Cirvelus: Dialogus disputatorius in additiones opusculi de sphaera mundi.
Paris: Guy Marchant, for Jean Petit, Feb. 1498.
Fol. a-k8 l-m6 n8. [100] leaves.
Woodcuts; woodcut borders; woodcut diagrams; woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC ij00418000; GW M14614; Goff J418; Polain(B) 2305, 2305A; BMC VIII 64 (IB. 39702); Bod-inc J-187.
| GIP number: | J24 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bh8-e.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variants: | Device of Jean Petit on a1r, not that of Guy Marchant; a3r, line 2: “... Inclita ...” not as in Polain 2035 “... Inclyta ...”; a6v, line 2: “... interſertis. ...” as in Polain 2035, not as in BMC “... insertis. ...”; a6v, line 5: “... tractatum ...” as in BMC, not as in Polain 2035 “... tratatum ...”; seven-line colophon on n4r as in Polain 2305, not as in Polain 2305A and BMC - but with two divergences: line 2 ends with the full word “... ↄmentario” not “... ↄmenta||rio ...”, and line 6 reads “... in campo ...” not “... sin campo ...”; n8r, line 14: “... Cetera...” not as in Polain 2305 “... Cereta ...” |
| Bound with: | The first of two items bound together. Bound with Jacobus Faber Stapulensis, Introductorium astronomicum. Paris: Henri Estienne, 1517. |
| Provenance: | Pecoul (16th/17th century), France, possible owner: inscription “Pecoul” on I4v (the final page) of second item in volume. Robert Simson (1687-1768), Professor of Mathematics, University of Glasgow: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Simson bequest, 1768; shelfmark “BR.6.2” on University of Glasgow Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis secundum literarum ordinem dispositus (Glasguae: 1791), where the provenance is identified as “Sims.” |
| Binding: | 18th-century sheep, rebacked in the 20th century; red-edged leaves; front free endpaper has a watermark of a fleur-de-lys on a base of five circles; rear free endpaper has watermark of a chalice on a four-footed base containing the initials “I D”. Size: 292 x 205 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 286 x 200 mm. |
| Annotations: | In margin of a1r (title-page) a cropped annotation referring to the author of the commentary “Petri Ciruelli Com[...]”; final line of text on n2r deleted; 17th/18th-century shelfmark on front pastedown (partially obscured by bookplate) beginning “P.f. [...]”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
